BRITNEY SPEARS has gone into a "panic" after her secret diaries were stolen from her Beverly Hills home. The Womaniser star had been due to start writing her memoirs but discovered that her handwritten journals and video diaries had gone missing.

The documents included intimate details about her highly-publicised breakdown last year, including her time in a psychiatric ward.They are also understood to have included details about her medical records, her plans to get back together with ex-husband Kevin Federline, how she kept hearing voices in her head, and the reason behind her decision to shave her head.A source close to Spears, 27, said the information in the journals is "crucial" to her autobiography.They said: "Britney is in a panic over the stolen journals and video interviews done during some of the darkest days of her life."She wants desperately to tell her side for her boys. She wants them to know the truth - her truth."The singer was reportedly close to signing a deal worth £10 million ($14 million) to write her autobiography, which will chronicle never-before-heard details of her year-long emotional breakdown.